Quotes about Craftsmanship

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

For nearly thirty years, the One who had crafted the universe with His voice crafted furniture with His hands. And He was good at what He did—no crooked table legs ever came out of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth.1 But Jesus was more than a master carpenter. He was also God incognito. His miraculous powers rank as history's best-kept secret for nearly three decades, but all that changed the day water blushed in the face of its Creator.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.